Biography

Starsky Brines’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme. In his bold works, the artist focuses on characters that are built from the combination of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features, as well as the appropriation of elements from comics and toys from his childhood. These characters distort reality to venture into an environment of subcultures and urbanism evoked by the spontaneous intuition of his strokes and the appropriation of the contemporary iconography. Personally influenced by his mother and art historically influenced by Latin American figurative art, the German neoexpressionism, the Italian Transavantgarde, and the COBRA group, his works oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Brines holds a degree in Fine Art from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón in Caracas. His work has received international attention in exhibitions and has been incorporated into important collections in cities such as Caracas, Basel, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Santander, Miami, Madrid and Seoul. Starsky Brines is a Venezuelan Artist bon in Venezuela, in 1977. He lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela.